A parliamentary inquiry will ask on Wednesday on charges of Brazilian President, although this scenario is unlikely.
Le Monde with AFP
A parliamentary inquiry committee (ICC) will ask the Brazilian Senate, Wednesday, October 20, the indictment of President Jair Bolsonaro for a series of crimes “intentional” when pandemic Covid-19 that killed more than 600,000 deaths in his country. After nearly six months of tumultuous hearings, with moving testimonies and chilling revelations about experiments on “human guinea pigs” with ineffective remedies, the ICC, composed of senators of different political tendencies, makes a long-awaited report.
The document, about 1 200 pages to be read – probably in an abridged version – the rapporteur Renan Calheiros. It announced on Tuesday night, having retained nine counts against Jair Bolsonaro, whose “crime against humanity” and “prevarication”. Those of “homicide” and “genocide of indigenous peoples” have been removed at the last minute because of dissension within the ICC.
For the ICC, crimes cited in the report are “intentional”, the Bolsonaro government has deliberately decided not to take the necessary measures to contain the virus circulation. Extremely serious charges, which should nevertheless have a mostly symbolic for now, the president of the extreme right benefiting from support in Parliament able to prevent him opening an impeachment. Similarly, the Attorney General Augusto Aras an ally of Mr. Bolsonaro can to block any indictment.
essentially political impact
The ICC should also seek the indictment of several ministers and three older son of the president, who called the commission “masquerade”. “This report will sentence-like, but the government is serene. We can criticize the attitude of the president, but not the blame,” said the site Uol Fernando Bezerra, head of the parliamentary bloc of the Government in the Senate. The ICC has no authority to commit itself prosecution, but his revelations could have a significant political impact, while polls already give Jair Bolsonaro losing to former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a year of presidential elections.
The report will be forwarded to the public prosecutor, sole jurisdiction to prosecute those implicated by the ICC. In the case of Jair Bolsonaro, specialists consider this unlikely charge, since it is the responsibility of the Attorney General. After the hearings of several ministers, senior officials or managers of hospitals and companies, the ICC has taken a more human turn Monday with testimony from families of victims of Covid-19.
“We deserve an apology from the highest authority of the state (President Bolsonaro). This is not a political issue. We’re talking about lives,” said, in tears, the taxi driver Márcio Antônio Silva, who lost her son 25 years. “What we have seen is the antithesis of what might be expected of a president. We have never seen shed tears of compassion or express condolences to the Brazilian people in mourning “added before the ICC Antônio Carlos Costa, president of Rio de Paz, an NGO.
Corruption and” human guinea pigs “
The ICC has investigated the government’s responsibilities in the severe shortage of oxygen caused the deaths of dozens of patients by asphyxiation in Manaus (north), the anti-containment Jair Bolsonaro speech and denial about the severity of Covid-19, a “grippette”. The government is also pinned for delays and allegations of corruption in the purchase of vaccines.
The commission also examined the relations between Brasilia and private mutual health organizations accused of promoting “early treatment”, including hydroxychloroquine, whose inefficiency has been scientifically proven.
One of them, Prevent Senior, is suspected of having carried out without the knowledge of his patients experience with this type of treatment, and have pressured her doctors to prescribe them for “guinea pigs human. ” “The report of the ICC clearly intended to lead to the punishment of those responsible, and there are many. We can not afford not to punish,” summed Tuesday Omar Aziz, Chairman of the Committee.